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posted by chromas on Monday April 23 2018, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the tennessine dept.

World's oldest person, last survivor of 19th century, dies in Japan at 117

The century of Lincoln, Darwin and Van Gogh has quietly passed into history with the death of the world's oldest known person and last survivor of the 19th century.

Nabi Tajima, 117, died in a hospital Saturday in Kikai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan's Kyodo News reported. Tajima had been mostly bedridden at a nursing home in recent years. She was hospitalized about a month ago, family members told the news service.

Also at The Washington Post.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @08:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @08:35PM (#670875)

    Khazar Jews... blablabla... We humans will find a way

    Yes! Humans and lizard people alike should untie against the Khazar Jews!!eleven!

    Er... what, exactly, is a Khazar Jew? Are they different from Orthodox Jews? Are regular Jews ok? Should regular Jews join with the humans and lizard people to fight the Khazars??? Which side is the Hebrew Hammer on? Hmm, I'll bet the Hebrew Hammer is a Khazar Jew. What about diplomacy to the Democratic People's Republic of the North Pole? Will Santa commit legions of elven slave armies to the alliance of humans and lizard people against the Khazar Jews?

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Hartree on Monday April 23 2018, @10:21PM

    by Hartree (195) on Monday April 23 2018, @10:21PM (#670906)

    It's a theory on the origin of the Ashkenazi Jews used by various anti-Semitic groups. the idea (IIRC) is that the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews never really were in Judea and came from a southern Turkic empire called Khazar.

    Khazar really did exist (and was used as the name source for the renaming of the Klingons to the Khazari in an early Trek game on the Plato System called Empire.)

    In truth, Khazar was a mix of various religions and was a competitor to the Byzantines.